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Port Stanley, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Lopez census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98261. It lies near Flower Island. The Survey maps it on the Blakely Island quadrangle.

Port Stanley within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Port Stanley between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 2017Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOPEZ HILL
3 August 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 August 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDECATUR HEAD
26 July 2009Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDOLPHIN BAY
13 July 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDECATUR BLUFF
12 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJAMES ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Port Stanley: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blakely IslandKyaniteOccurrence
Humphrey Head QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Erismann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lopez Redi-Mix Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shoal Bay Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lopez2.5 miles11
Thatcher3.0 miles13
Decatur3.9 miles13
Shaw Island4.3 miles11
Orcas5.5 miles11
Olga5.8 miles13
Richardson6.3 miles12
Islandale6.5 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122590155The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511239. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.